Ministry of Fear (Criterion Collection)
Thrilling drama of the Invisible Network of Terror!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 12, 2013
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ray Milland & Marjorie Reynolds | |
Performer: | Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram, Dan Duryea, Alan Napier & Erskine Sanford | |
Directed by | Fritz Lang | |
Edited by | Archie Marshek | |
Screenwriting by | Seton I. Miller | |
Composition by | Miklos Rozsa & Victor Young | |
Produced by | Seton I. Miller | |
Director of Photography: | Henry Sharp |
Entertainment Reviews:
Plant yourself well in a firm seat and keep your over-coat on when you go to see this thriller, for it dumps you and douses you fast.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
The film as a whole doesn't really stick with you, but isolated moments and images do
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 54/100 --
It's certainly fitting that after filling his German years with ballsy, predictive masterpieces about Nazi rule-by-fear, Fritz Lang would finally make a film that directly involves Nazis.
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Film and Felt
...It's packed with the filmmaker's prototypically arresting shadows and nocturnal atmosphere...
USA Today
An astonishing combination of clumsy, false adaptation, unsure direction, and mis-casting, has changed Greene's Ministry of Fear into an ordinary spy film, with a few expensive and Hitchcock flourishes.
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Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Rating: 4/4 --
Uncertainty and fear of the unknown are the hallmarks of this classic film noir by master director Lang, which, until the last revelation, is guaranteed to puzzle and chill the viewer.
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TV Guide
Lang at his finest and purest.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
In Fritz Lang's haunting take on Graham Greene's novel, Ray Milland plays Stephen Neale--a bewildered man just released from an asylum. However, reality proves to be more surreal and perplexing than the asylum itself. Neale wanders through the streets, whimsically stopping off at a rural carnival, where he unwittingly gets involved in a complex and dangerous spy ring that is attempting to smuggle microfilm out of the country. He travels to London and hires a small-time detective to help him decipher the mysterious things that seem to constantly befall him. But things only get more confused from there, leading Stephen to Scotland Yard, where his fate entwines with a Nazi front organization, and a love affair.
Lang paints a rich and complex picture of the double crossings and deceptions of World War II Europe with MINISTRY OF FEAR. Full of seances, back rooms, secret bookstores, and deserted hotels, the film is an atmospheric vision of the War, in which Lang uses expressionist images (a blind man emerging from the fog, beams of light piercing a dark room as gunshots are fired) to articulate the fear and suspicion of Europe in the 1940s.
Lang paints a rich and complex picture of the double crossings and deceptions of World War II Europe with MINISTRY OF FEAR. Full of seances, back rooms, secret bookstores, and deserted hotels, the film is an atmospheric vision of the War, in which Lang uses expressionist images (a blind man emerging from the fog, beams of light piercing a dark room as gunshots are fired) to articulate the fear and suspicion of Europe in the 1940s.
Keywords:
Mystery
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Spies
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Suspense
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Thriller
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World War II
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Betrayal
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Murder
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Film Noir
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Blackmail
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 38,759
- UPC: 715515103510
- Shipping Weight: 0.18/lbs (approx)
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